A short note to myself: slow down!
Whatever you do, just slow down. Please.
The road ahead of me is out of sight. I strain to see, but make out nothing but contours. It might make a hard left, or a right, or just fall out from under me – there is no one to ask, because no one can tell.
Some two or three years back, as my fitness was if not shot to hell, at least way below what I wished it to be, I decided to start running.
Right now, looking back, I see the progress I have made since then. I can run longer, and I can run faster. Well, of course I can – these facts are neither very surprising nor interesting. What’s more interesting though, is that I now, three years down the road, find myself with an almost radically different perspective to running.
It’s not what it used to be. The physical of running has somehow merged with the spiritual of meditation. And I think they will prove a happy couple.
Today I wrote a running manifesto, and without further ado, here it is.